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	Youth Pastor Sentenced for Molesting Boy By Lisa Roose-Church Daily Press & Argus October 16, 2009 http://www.livingstondaily.com/article/20091016/NEWS01/91016003/Youth-pastor-sentenced-for-molesting-boy A youth pastor, who maintained his innocence, was sentenced Thursday to the Livingston County Jail for molesting a then-10-year-old boy. Circuit Judge Michael P. Hatty ordered Randy William Strong, of Fenton, to serve one year in the county jail for molesting the victim, who is now 18, in 2002. The judge also ordered Strong to serve five years probation. A jury convicted Strong in August of second-degree criminal sexual conduct. "Am I guilty of this sin? I am not," Strong, 55, said. "I will let God and the (Michigan) Court of Appeals work that out." The victim testified at trial that he told a counselor and his parents about the abuse, which began with massages and escalated to touching. It is the Daily Press & Argus' policy not to name victims of sexual abuse. Strong testified that the incidents did not occur. Court records stated that Strong was a part-time youth pastor in Durand when the incidents occurred while he was staying with the Livingston County family. He was listed as the director of the Region 3 Young Adult Campus Ministry for St. John the Evangelist parish in Fenton.
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